16 04, 2024

EVENT: A federal Canada and a federal Europe

By |2024-04-30T20:58:56+00:00April 16th, 2024|Categories: 2024, Europe, Federalism, Global, Past Events, UK|Tags: , , , |

30th April 2024 Hybrid event on Canadian federalism, jointly organised with Federal Union. The main speaker (via Zoom) was M. Jean Charest, former Premier of Quebec (2023-2012) and former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (1993), who spoke on "Federal Reality in Canada", followed by a Q&A session. While his principal [...]

25 11, 2020

Can the EU function as a democracy without forming a state?

By |2021-11-09T18:34:52+00:00November 25th, 2020|Categories: 2020, EU Policies & Institutions, Europe, Federalism, Future of Europe|Tags: , , , , , |

4th December 2020 19.30 - 21.00 Part of the joint Reflections on the Future of Europe series with New Europeans At this online discussion, Jaap Hoeksma asked "Can the EU be a democratic union of states and people at the same time?" Read his essay here: Replacing the Westphalian system – [...]

14 02, 2020

Anti-federalist Europeanism: a theoretical and practical impossibility?

By |2020-06-23T15:55:09+00:00February 14th, 2020|Categories: Brexit, Europe, Federalism|Tags: , , , , , |

by Dr Andrew BlickReader in Politics and Contemporary History at King’s College London; Senior Research Fellow at the Federal Trust 14th February 2020 Criticism of the European Union in United Kingdom (UK) political discourse has often focused upon the proposition that as a project it is federal in nature. For this [...]

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